Happy #WITMonth ! First up: @transitbooks.bsky.social

What an honor to be included in this phenomenal roundup! Thank you @karlajstrand.com & Violet! @transitbooks.bsky.social www.transitbooks.org/books/altera...

Book mail!! 🎉🎉🎉 @transitbooks.bsky.social

Pausing to read A Sleepless Night from @transitbooks.bsky.social at #alaac25 Booth 715

“I had to get back home to Vaim, I thought, and why did I always take these boat trips to Bjørgvin anyway, they never really had any point, these excursions” From Vaim, by Jon Fosse, which will be published in October by @transitbooks.bsky.social‬

Celebrate your independents with @michaelschaub.bsky.social’s list of small-press #books out now or coming this summer. #booksky www.ocregister.com/2025/06/24/3...

Adapted from Alterations out from Transit Books next month! Could not be more excited to have part of the book out in this dream publication today! Please pre-order here: www.transitbooks.org/books/altera... @parisreview.bsky.social + @transitbooks.bsky.social

LOOK UP from @transitbooks.bsky.social gets a look from @publisherswkly.bsky.social “Against a primarily earth-toned palette, the birds scatter across pages like multicolored confetti in this soaring celebration of the virtues of looking up” www.publishersweekly.com/9798893380286

Madeleine Watts's intro to Antigone Kefala's THE ISLAND, up today in The Nation: "The plot is not really the point; the writing is most interested in the process of 'becoming' trying to find a new kind of form in which the experience of being alive will crystalize." tinyurl.com/5n67eu4d

From @thehornbook.bsky.social a Recommended Summer Reading List! And it includes DOWNPOUR from @redcometpressbooks.bsky.social and A SLEEPLESS NIGHT from @transitbooks.bsky.social both #picturebooks in #translation www.hbook.com/story/newsle...

"Our duty is to tend, to lend ongoing, active attention instead of static remembrance." Clancey D'Isa's review of “Motherhood and Its Ghosts” by Iman Mersal (@transitbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/23/a...

Over the last few weeks, we've seen devastating cuts to federal arts funding. This funding has been critical to organizations like ours. To support our mission and 🎉 celebrate our literary community in the Bay, come out for one (or both!) upcoming Transit events:

Exciting mail day! @transitbooks.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

Thanks to @fuse8.bsky.social for taking note of how special #kidsbooks from @transitbooks.bsky.social are! "Though your list each season is small...your books are mighty” afuse8production.slj.com/2025/05/08/p...

Thank you, @transitbooks.bsky.social!!!

GO OUT AND DO SOMETHING IN SPACE AND IN TIME TODAY that is oakland review of books' recommendation THE WEATHER IS GOOD www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...

Though their list is small, their books are mighty. @transitbooks.bsky.social specializes in small books that you wouldn't notice at all, were it not for their concentrated efforts. Take a gander at three they have coming up. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/05/08/p...

We need indie presses. Certainly more than we need government funds to be spent “foster[ing] AI competency” or “empower[ing] houses of worship to serve communities,” whatever that means.

Along with many other nonprofit arts organizations, we learned last night that our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts—$40,000 toward the publication of our books in 2025—has been terminated. While this news was not unexpected, its message was chilling.

I cannot wait for this!!! Which is often how I feel about this series, but especially with Kate Zambreno!

All the summer bulbs are in. And I served as a feast of sorts for many swarming insects. I’ve left the bugs to celebrate their victory against me and am stretched out on my favorite sofa reading Immemorial by Lauren Markham. A good Saturday. @transitbooks.bsky.social

Coming in September! Kate Zambreno’s ANIMAL STORIES, an exploration of mortality, alienation, boredom, surveillance, and how we regard ourselves among the animals, part of our Undelivered Lecture series, is now available for preorder ✨ www.transitbooks.org/books/animalstories

In this Spanish import (translated into English), an astronaut lands on a strange planet and is befriended by a creature, who is the narrator of the story. The creature is accidentally killed, and Astro mourns. Push kids to think a little deeper with this unique book & its ethereal vibe. #kidkit 📚👍🏼

Out today: One of the most beautiful and affecting picture books I have ever seen. Astro tells an existential story about friendship, loss, and grief. The mixed media illustrations are absolutely phenomenal. @transitbooks.bsky.social 💙📚

While we couldn’t transport you to #BCBF we can share an interview with Manuel Marsol who was featured there last year with pages from ASTRO published by @transitbooks.bsky.social www.letstalkpicturebooks.com/2025/03/lets...

My post on upcoming books from #Yonder & @transitbooks.bsky.social #worldkidlit worldkidlit.org/2025/04/03/n...

Headed to Dallas for #txla25 and look who's come along! It's @transitbooks.bsky.social MOUSSE, going along to celebrate his newest #kidsbook, in which Mousse spends a day out!

Mel Schuitt discusses ASTRO from @transitbooks.bsky.social w/ Manuel Marsol its author and illustrator on #LetsTalkPictureBooks www.letstalkpicturebooks.com/2025/03/lets...

Immemorial x Lauren Markham / @transitbooks.bsky.social Memory, that famously slippery thing, doesn’t ever seem to work the way we think it does. Now we know that the brain files and refiles memories, rewriting them and updating them as it revisits them. hararereview.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/i...

Publishers Weekly official! New Fosse coming in October, with cover design for our hardcover edition by Jared Bartman 🙏

"This isn’t a book about climate policy. This is a book about climate grief." Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo interviews @laurenmarkham.bsky.social about Immemorial (@transitbooks.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/x8Tcch4

Thursday (March 6) meet #kidsbook #translators in a free online program from @chlaorg.bsky.social featuring Kit Maude from #TapiocaStories Adam Levy from @transitbooks.bsky.social & Karin Snelson from @redcometpressbooks.bsky.social wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We have a LOT of #kidsbook programming coming your way next week #librarians and #teachers! On Thursday, March 6, join us on Zoom at 5pm ET for conversations with #translators who work with @redcometpressbooks.bsky.social @transitbooks.bsky.social & #TapiocaStories bit.ly/3ERkXdy

#TranslationTuesday From @transitbooks.bsky.social ASHIMPA explores in #picturebook format "the discovery of an obscure word incit[ing]...public curiosity” Written & illustrated by Catarin Sobral & translated by Juliana Barbassa, "Ashimpishly delicious fun” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Iman Mersal's MOTHERHOOD AND ITS GHOSTS (tr. Robin Moger) is "a searching, intimate, and captivating volume that deserves a place among the best writing and thinking about motherhood" (Book Riot). Next in our Undelivered Lectures series, out in May. buff.ly/42Vy7jO

Three narrators, three deaths, and a boat named Eline. New Fosse coming this October—the first in a trilogy by the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Literature—translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls. 👀

⭐ #PictureBook #HBReviewoftheWeek A SLEEPLESS NIGHT by Micaela Chirif illus by Joaquín Camp trans by Jordan Landsman @transitbooks.bsky.social "The rich, humorous text is full of similes, + the illus appear to be rendered w/ markers, offering a layered + textured style" www.hbook.com/story/review...

Thanks @fuse8.bsky.social for the rousing welcome to the #Spring2025 #kidsbooks coming from @transitbooks.bsky.social afuse8production.slj.com/2025/02/06/p...

I made a pit stop in Point Reyes station yesterday. Caught most of the lovely convo between @laurenmarkham.bsky.social & @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and picked up a copy of Lauren’s new book-length, speculative essay out now at @transitbooks.bsky.social.

Listen to @elamin.bsky.social and Emily Gould discuss how I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (@transitbooks.bsky.social) became a word-of-mouth bestseller! www.cbc.ca/arts/commoti...

IMMATERIAL (Undelivered Lectures series), offering a different take on what there is to lose, via the estimable @transitbooks.bsky.social, got 4.5*/5 from me here: expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/02/imma...

🎉 Happy pub day! 🎉 Lauren Markham's IMMEMORIAL, an "urgent, heartfelt, lyrical" (Kirkus 🌟 ) essay on language in the face of climate catastrophe—how we memorialize what has been lost and what soon will be—is out today. www.transitbooks.org/books/immemorial

TUE at 9AM with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social: Writer @laurenmarkham.bsky.social joins to talk about her new book of reflections "Immemorial" and how we grieve the effects of climate change, while working to change it.

Congratulations to @transitbooks.bsky.social for collecting yet another award! #ChildrensEditions' THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT collected an #Honor #BatchelderAward2025 yesterday!

Congratulations to @transitbooks.bsky.social ! #BatchelderHonor for A SLEEPLESS NIGHT!

Congratulations, Iman Mersal and Robin Moger! TRACES OF ENAYAT is a finalist for the NBCC Barrios Book in Translation Prize (@bookcritics.bsky.social ) 🎉🎉🎉

🎉 Welcome, Juan! 🎉 Juan Cárdenas's PEREGRINO TRANSPARENTE, an upended Western about the uneasy alliance between art and empire, following an 1850 expedition tasked with mapping the Republic of New Granada, now Colombia, is coming Spring 2026.

Delighted to see Suzumi Suzuki's GIFTED (tr. Allison Markin Powell) on the @usrofc.bsky.social longlist, alongside books from so many great independent presses. This prize is doing the good work 🙏 Come party (virtually) with the longlistees on 2/19! 🥳 www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/news

First of three predictions for my Batchelder shelf - A DAY WITH MOUSSE by Claire Leboug tr by Sophie Lewis from @transitbooks.bsky.social I like that it is a chapter book & the story has themes of friendship, loneliness, routines, & caring 🥰 I am excited for Mousse’s next adventure #worldkidlit

Mark your calendars! Two great Bay Area events coming up next month for Lauren Markham's IMMEMORIAL: 2/4 with Jenny Odell at Gilman Brewing and 2/8 with Rebecca Solnit (@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) at Point Reyes Books (@pointreyesbooks.bsky.social) Reserve your place: https://buff.ly/4h46F79